PROGRESSIVE BEEF CATTLE RAISING 



years by keeping close watch for spoilage and using only 

 the older silage. These may seem to involve a greater 

 degree of extra work than the rancher would desire, but 

 he must remember that only by the attention to such 

 details as these, can he continue to make his business 

 uniformly successful. 



The feeder buyer has the most 

 Buying important job from the standpoint 



Feeders of profit and loss that is found in the 



cattle industry until the animals are 

 finally bought for the kill. Few feeders realize the extreme 

 importance of buying their animals at the right price. 

 Fewer still realize the factors that determine feeder 

 values. Until a few years ago feeder prices were deter- 

 mined by the cost of finishing, and cattlemen could take 

 more chances on coming out through the big end of the 

 horn than they can nowadays. Since the outbreak of 

 the war the price of feeds has been so variable and the 

 demand for meat has been so fluctuating that at times the 

 cheaper and lighter carcasses not salable in pre-war times 

 have been taken at relatively very high prices. In 

 addition to the reaction against waste in cuts, there is an 

 actual increase in the willingness to eat unfinished meats, 

 so the spread between the thin and finished animal which 

 held in past years has been decidedly narrowed. This 

 necessitates the closest possible study of finishing costs 

 on the part of the feeder buyer, and the most careful 

 supervision of the purchase of his stock. Feeder cattle 

 not prudently bought can never make money, no matter 

 how economically the feeding may be managed. 



The majority of feeders do not 

 Feeding recognize the importance of well 



Equipment arranged dry sanitary lots for steer 



feeding, nor do they realize the inti- 

 macy of the relation of conditions in the feedlot with the 

 returns the steers are able to show.- It is important 



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